Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-13
of q week ago relative to the threatened
arrest of General Campbell that it is

ofa week ago relative to the threatene
arrest of General Campbell that it
worth while to print the screed entire
The Washington special reads as follows
| An bfficer in one of the department
| who processes to be deep in the conf
dence of Springer and Other prom,nen
democratic politicians, said the othe
| night:
This administration has put up with abou
Ms much sass from Dakota as it Intends to
What ought 70 be done" said h. "and wha
that man Campbell ard put hiui where th
| dogs wont bite him. He ought to be arrestet
Tor sedltlon at once, and have the means o
kknowng that if Ss don't gut his
him pretty soon, and viii do SO under the ad
vice Of the president, too. The whole matter
has been talked oyer fully aud Church has hi
| mischief and it's time he was muzzled.
This is credited to an officer of one
of the departments at Washington
Which one is not stated, but as terri
torial governors receive their orders
from the interior department, the
Inference is that the information
emanates from the Lamar jurisdiction.
The language above quoted is supposed
to have been instigated by the utterances
OF General Campbell in his Huron mem
orial grafton. Upon that occasion Gem
erai Campbell said:
II now claim to speak for the people
of Dakota, without distinction Of party,
whose interests are suffering; whose in
dustries are langnishing; whose enter,
prlses are crippled; whose litigaRts aad
suitors are meeting with denial of
Justice IN the cousts; who are taxed with
out representation; whose properly In-
terests are 5he sport and whim of q de-
partment clerk; whose magnificent
domain OF school lands is being des-
poiled and frittered away withoutremedy
and who are governed by government
that Is neither of the people, by the peo-
pie nor for the people"
All this is true. The government
itself cannot deny that it is trne. Ii
there Is sedItion in the language
it is the government which has melted
sedition in its refusal to right tha
wrongs portrayed By General Campbell
But in this country it is not sedition for
sn orator or newspaper to recite the
wrongs from which the people suffer and
to call upon the authorities of the ma
tion to right those wrongs. What might
be sedition under radical monarchy is
but the recognized freedom of speech
and thought under our republic. Gem
eral Campbell further said upon that
occasion:
speak for people who are uniustly
and illegally and unconstitutionally
denied every right, despoiled OF every
liberty and afflicted with every injustice
and form os tyranny named in the de-
claratIon of independence and rebelled
against by our foretathers of the revolu-
ton.
There is no extravaganza OF language
in this. An analysis Of the condition
of the colonists in 1776 and the con-
dition of the residents of Dakota in 1887
reveals striking similarity between the
two. And under our enlightened and
liberal form of government it is not
sedition to cali things, by their right
names. In concluding this portion OF
his Grafton General Campbell said:
Shame on o government and admins
tration or department that thinks more
OF an insignificant strip of land; that
looks more carefully to the rights of o
few struggling Indians; that is more
anxious about sectional or partisan pre-
dominance that it is of the most vain
able interests or the most sacred rights
and dearest liberties Of $500 900 Ameri-
can citizens and freemen.
Is it the shame he inyckes which
prompts the threat,of violence against
the speaker? "Put him where the dogs
won't bite himp And for speaking bis
mind like a man among men. A gov
ernment and an administration which
hurls this threat at q long suffering peo-
pie has even more cause for shame than
was recited by the speaker before his
Huron audience.
It tls not at all probable that Dakota
will be taken by the throat for pleading
it's cause, yet the threat will not be
passed in forgetfulness because the
general government has no authority to
carry out the desires of its representa-
tiyes. We are warned that the adminis-
tration would resort to force if it could.
The warning carries its lesson.
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